Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>
>
>>>How do I change my bash color scheme? And can I specify different colors
>>>for different file types (dirs/executables/hidden)?
>>
>>You need to set the LSCOLORS environment variable. I don't have a reference
>>handy, but googling should bring up a few hits.
>>
>>http://linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html
>
>
> That might come from the file /etc/DIR_COLORS .
To source the dircolors config into your current shell, merely eval the
output of dircolors:
In a bourne shell (sh/ksh/bash/...):
$ eval `dircolors -b`
In a C shell (csh/tcsh/...):
> eval `dircolors -c`
Note the backticks.
Your ls is probably already aliased to autodetect its invocation to use
color or not, ie:
$ alias ls
alias ls='ls --color=auto '
To force color output, you can always use "ls --color=yes".
To view the entire dircolors config, try the -p flag:
$ dircolors -p
You can dump the config to a file, and use it to source your environment
later:
$ sudo dircolors -p > /etc/DIR_COLORS
$ eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
Or, if you want to work a user private configuration into your
environment, you can add the eval to the end of your shell profile.
$ dircolors -p > $HOME/.dircolors
$ echo 'eval `dircolors -b $HOME/.dircolors`' >> ~/.profile
(remembering the order of invocation of your shell's profile)
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